Autoethnography

What I got out of the reading for this week was that filmmakers like Jonas Mekas, George Kuchar, and Sadie Benning used personal video diaries to reflect on their ethical and cultural views of the world around them. I found it interesting how they can say so much in these type of films and even finding a way in incorporating how they go about telling of their personal experiences that already have occurred prior to filming. Also I feel like these films that they create are very informative in a way that you are able to understand where they are coming from and understand the issue at hand that they are describing to you. The intimacy between the performer and the certain audience is important too in the act of creating video diaries because the performer could be being filmed without knowing so much that there is an audience, but they are acting as if there is. Overall, I feel that autoethnography is something that we can accomplish through reflecting our experiences in way that our audience can see that personal connection that we have with a wider culture, political, or social understandings.